Browse by Tags

Improving the documentation
Tue, Aug 28 2007 13:32

If you haven’t heard, Microsoft is now updating the WDK documentation monthly and is now providing a way to download these updated docs to your computer. This update, just for documentation, can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/DevTools/WDK/WDKdocs.mspx Microsoft should be congratulated for this effort to improve the documentation in a timely manner... Read More...

by DonBurn | 1 comment(s)

Filed under: General, Microsoft, Tools

Tag, you're it
Fri, Jun 15 2007 18:31

I’ve been spending the last couple of days tracking down a bug in a driver I am writing. The effort reminded me of how great tags on memory allocations and frees can be. Also, the work reminded me that there are at least a couple of features Microsoft does not promote and I rarely see. For the uninitiated, tags are a four character value that is passed as an... Read More...

by DonBurn | 1 comment(s)

Filed under: General, Diagnostics, Driver Design, Tools

Document explorer versus useful data
Wed, May 30 2007 14:21

There is a trend in the tools coming out of Microsoft that is driving me nuts and in my opinion significantly hurting productivity. This trend is the shrinking of the amount of data that appears on the display and requiring more mouse clicks to get there. For driver writers this trend is most obvious in Document Explorer 8 which is used to display the Vista WDK... Read More...

by DonBurn | with no comments

Filed under: General, Microsoft, Tools

Bleeding edge and far from it
Sun, May 20 2007 12:36

I am just back from WinHEC and while there I realized that many people including a number from Microsoft don’t distinguish developing for the leading edge from living there. I am known as a guy who has done a number of things that Redmond had said “Windows is not capable of doing” and technologies that Microsoft was later proud to show off once they were working... Read More...

by DonBurn | 2 comment(s)

Filed under: General, Microsoft, Tools, WinHEC

How tuned is your time machine?
Fri, Apr 27 2007 12:03

How tuned is your time machine? No, I am not talking about DeLoreans with Flux Capacitors, but a tool almost all software development groups have but many use poorly, namely source control . A simple test of how well your source control system is doing is to see how many times a day the average developer checks in code. The sad fact is that in most development... Read More...

by DonBurn | 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Tools